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The Microsoft Red Team attacks ALL Microsoft services, continually – identifying critical, systemic risks, demonstrating authentic attack chains and techniques, and working with engineering teams, investigators, and incident responders to continuously improve their ability to protect, detect, investigate, and respond to real attacks.

Microsoft Red Team is launching the AI Adversary Lab (AIAL) in ILDC (Microsoft Israel Development Center), a new extension of the Microsoft Red Team, to address the growing threat of AI-enabled adversaries through deep engineering and applied research.

As part of it’s mission, AIAL will collaborate with U.S.-based Red Team engineers and Red Team operators to enhance and scale an AI-driven adversary emulation platform that we use to protect Microsoft. This new team will bring together deep expertise in large-scale artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and generative models to address emerging security threats in Microsoft’s complex and rapidly evolving digital environment. Defending one of the world’s most diverse enterprise environments offers an unparalleled opportunity to build, deploy, and assess autonomous red teaming and defense capabilities using cutting-edge AI techniques.

As a Principal Product Manager in the Microsoft Red Team, you will be the founding PM for AIAL. You will own the product vision, customer engagement, requirements, and prioritization for the pillars driven by AIAL. You will work closely with engineers, internal customers, red team operators, and researchers to define and execute on product strategy that helps Microsoft defend against emerging AI-enabled adversaries.

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• Become a founding member of the AIAL group as part of Microsoft Red Team. Help shape the team culture and practices.
• Own and articulate product vision, strategy and roadmap for AIAL’s offerings based on deep customer engagement and feedback.
• Partner with customers to translate requirements and insights into prioritized product roadmaps, OKRs, and execution plans that drive measurable business impact and ensure technical feasibility.
• Work with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to lead the planning process, ensure timely delivery of features, validate product decisions with data, and iteratively improve product outputs.
• Represent AIAL in internal forums, customer meetings, and cross-organization design reviews that influence strategic direction and adoption.
• Ensure Microsoft continues to improve security through authentic red team attacks.

Our teams focuses on the diversity of all types of candidates, and we strive to hire people with different experiences and perspectives into our teams. To that end, we know that no candidate has every desired skill and experience, but together we make a strong, effective teams.

• You have at least 10+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, or software development working on complex, fast-moving products.
• You have prior experience in cybersecurity OR offensive security OR red teaming OR penetration testing OR related domains.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with customers to gather requirements, influence senior stakeholders, and drive consensus.
• Strong strategic thinking with a track record of writing product strategy documents, defining roadmaps, and setting measurable outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, OR equivalent experience.
• Technical fluency that allows you to effectively partner with engineers and researchers on architecture, APIs, telemetry and security capabilities.
• Experience working with AI, LLMs, autonomous agents, or ML-driven systems in a product context.
• Familiarity with internal security tools, telemetry systems, attack simulation platforms or adversary emulation frameworks.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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